Spring-bed supporting-hanger.



W. 0. LATHROP.

SPRING BED SUPPORTING HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3. 19:4.

1,209,175.- Patented Dec. 19,1916.

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or CINCINNATI, oHIo.

Patented n 19,1916.

Application filed November 3, 1914. Serial No. 870,137;

:To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLARD O. LATHROP,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State ofOhio, have invented a 'cert ain'new and useful Improvement in Spring-BedSupporting-Hangers, of which'the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hanger-supports for spring bed-bottoms and itsobject is to provide in connection with the hanger-support and thespring-bed side-rail an arched clamp-plate that islongitudinally-mounted on the said side-rail and'has a pairor more ofdownwardly-turned corners that engage the said side-rail when it isplaced in position to-cap or span the inner end of thelongitudinally-slotted hanger base or bar and is itself provided with ahole through which a bolt passes upwardly from an alined hole in saidside-rail and the slot in said base or bar, and a suitable thumbnut usedto adjustably and detachably secure the plate and the hanger in thedesired relation on said side-rail to suit varied widths of bedsteads.

The device is a very simple one and is fully described herein inconnection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 isa perspective view showing one form of the improved hanger device inconnection with sectional fragments of the bed-spring side-rail and theangle-bar or side-rail of the bedstead; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectiontaken on the dotted-line a, w, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective viewsimilar to Fig. 1, but showing the clamp device in use in connectionwith a straight, flat bar whose outer end rests on the lower innershoulder or ledge of a wooden side-rail; and Fig. 4, a perspective viewof the preferred form of clamp-plate having a single pair of pendent ordownwardly-turned corners at but one longitudinal side only.

1 indicates an angle-iron side-rail of a bedstead shown in Fig. l withits horizontal side turned inwardly toward the springbed side-rail 2which parallels it and is also of a similar right-angle-iron form (asseen in both Figs. 1 and 3). The side-rail 1 is of somewhat heaviermaterial than that of the side-rail 2, as customary, and my invention isadapted for use in connection with a wooden side-rail lthat has theusual shoulder'or ledge 3 along its inner vlower edge (as seen in Fig. 3only).

When a right-angle bar orangle-iron is used for the bedsteadside-rail l(as seen in Figsil and.2), a common form of hanger composed of avertical main-member 4, up per, horizontalhook-member 5' and .lowerhorizontal base-member or foot 6, is best adaptedfor engagementtherewithand for supporting'the spring-bed structure therefrom. Alongitudinal slot 7'is pierced in thebase or foot (iofthe hangertoprovide for bedsteads of a straight, horizontal bar 6 is necessary, thesamebeing slotted at 7 like unto the foot 6 of the angled hanger. I Inorder to couple the said hangers to the side-rail of the spring-bed forsuspending or supporting the latter between the usual pair of siderails1 of the bedstead, I provide a clamping-plate that is composed of a bodyportion 8 having downwardly-turned flanges 9, 9, at its opposite ends,bases or feet 10 projecting from said flanges, and downwardly-turnedarms or stops 11 preferably at one end only of each of the bases or feet10, along one longitudinal edge or side of the clampingplate (as seen inFig. 4 only). The arms or stops 11 can, however, be provided at bothends of both of the bases or feet 10, which would locate them at each ofthe four corners of the rectangular clamping-plate (as seen in Figs. 1,2 and 3), but it would not be essential to do so, as the two stops 11seen in Fig. 4 will beample to keep the plate from turning or shiftingon the siderail 2 when once set and secured in place.

Besides, the use of but the two stops 11,

seen in Fig. 4, renders the device more readily and cheaply made, and,also, more readily handled in manufacture, packing anduse.

A vertical bolt 12is used to attach each hanger to the side-rail 2 ofthe spring-bed. This bolt has its shank extended upwardly through acircular hole 13 in the horizontal upper member of the angle-ironforming said side-rail 2, thence through the slot 7 in the hanger baseor foot 6 (or bar 6*, as the case may be), thence through a central hole14 pierced in the body portion 8 of the clamping-plate to be finallycapped or engaged by a nut (thumb one, as shown, preferred) 15 on itsupper screw-threaded varied widths... l When a wooden bedstead slde-rall1s used, however,

end. The lower end of the shank of the bolt is preferably square incross-section to prevent its turning in the slot 7 when apply- T abovethe top face of the angle-iron or siderail 2 (as in Fig. 2) to secure abetter frictional contact and clamping effect between the nut 15 andsaid top face of the side-rail 2, especially for the contiguous faces ofthe hanger base or bar 10 and the said top face of side-rail 2.

The arms 11 have sufficient depth to extend somewhat below the lowerface of the upper horizontal member of the spring-bed side-rail 2 so asto form ample stops to hold or interlock the clamping-plate in theproper square or alined relation with the hanger foot or bar andtheside-rail 2.

I claim a In combination, a spring-bed angle-iron Copies of this patentmay be obtained for side-rail and a transverse supportinghanger device,the latter comprising a longitudishort downwardly-turned stop-armsformed at the opposite ends of the said horizontal flanges of theclamping-plate and adapted to freely span and engage said side-rail, avertical bolt that is partly fiat-sided and adapted to engage a circularhole in the horizontal wing of the said side-rail, thence engaging theslot in said hanger-bar against turning and thence engaging the saidcentral orifice of the clamping-plate, and a clamping-nut on the outerthreaded-end of the bolt.

WILLARD O. LATHROP. Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS-JONES, RAY W. CONWAY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

